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Antithesis

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A juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. Example: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong

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Consonance

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The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds in neighboring words Example" Mike likes his new bike "And the silken sad uncertain rustling..."

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Apposition

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Placing side-by-side two coordinate elements (noun phrases), the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. Example: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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Chiasmus

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In rhetoric, a verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expressipn is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. Essentially the same as antimetabole, but can work on the sentence level all the way up to the structure of an entire piece. Example: "Live simply that others might simply live." -Ghandi It is hard to make money, but to spend it is easy.

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Hyperbaton

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A figure of speech that uses disruption or inversion of customary word order to produces a distinctive effect; also, a figure in which language takes a sudden turn -- usually an interruption. Example: "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man."

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Climax

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In rhetoric, mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction, with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of an experience or series of events. Similar to auxesis, but with _________ the words or phrases are related, as in: Example: [Hester said], "this badge hath taught me -- it daily teaches me -- it is teaching me at this moment -- lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better..." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Epanalepsis

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1) A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at regular intervals; a refrain 2) Repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began; a combination of anaphora and epistrophe. Example: "Next time there won't be a next time." (Phil Leotardo in The Sopranos)

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Polyptoton

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A rhetorical term for repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings Example: Choosy mothers choose Jif.

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Assonance

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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. Example: men sell wedding bells.

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Parenthesis

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An explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage with which it doesn't necessarily have any grammatical connection usually marked off by round or square brackets, dashes, or commas. Example: Billy Bob, a great singer, was not a good dancer.

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Ellipses

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In grammar and rhetoric, the omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader Example: I ordered the linguini, and he lobster

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Anastrophe

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in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies ("the form divine"), a verb before its subject ("came the dawn"), or a noun preceding its preposition ("worlds between"). Inversion is most commonly used in poetry in which it may both satisfy the demands of the meter and achieve emphasis. Example: In Xandu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree (from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan

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Isocolon

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A rhetorical term for a succession of clauses or sentences approximately equal length and corresponding structure. A type of parallelism. Example: (His purpose was) to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous.

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Anaphora

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A literary or oratorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several sentences or clauses. Example: Old Testament (Ecclesiastes 3;1-2) For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heave; a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planned...

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Antimetabole

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A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A). -"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." (A.J. Liebling) -"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us." (Malcolm X)

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the beginning sounds of words Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," "long-lived," "phenomenal freshman," and "the fickle finger of fate."

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next. Example: This public school has a record of extraordinary reliability, a reliability that every other school is jealous of in the city.

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Asyndeton

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A rhetorical term for writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses Example: "I came, I saw, I conquered."

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Polysyndeton

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A rhetorical term for a sentence style that employs many conjunctions. Example: This semester, I am taking English and history and mathematics and sociology and physical education.

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Scheme

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A change in the usual order of words for rhetorical effect. Deals with word order, letters, syntax, and sounds, whereas trope deals with modifying the meaning of a word. ______ comes from Greek schema meaning "form" or "shape"

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Parallelism

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A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. Also called _ structure. By convention, items in a series appear in ____ grammatical form: a noun is listed with other nouns, an -ing for with other nouns, an -ing forms, and so on. Example: He tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong

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Epistrophe

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A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. Example: Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. (Judd Nelson as John Bender in The Breakfast Club).

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